Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Started with Business Models
Nicely done piece with lots of links. Via O'Reilly. Gives you many ways to think about business models. For data scientists, yes, but for most anyone thinking about how to get started in making money by reaching out to
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From insideHPC
ORNL to lead INFUSE Network for Fusion Energy Program
The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program, or INFUSE, to encourage private-public research partnerships for overcoming challenges in fusion energy development. "Researchers and
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From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: Exacomm 2019 Workshop at ISC High Performance
"The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures…
From insideHPC
Video: Supercomputing Dynamic Earthquake Ruptures
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to model multi-fault earthquakes in the Brawley fault zone, which links the San Andreas and Imperial faults in Southern California. Their work could predict the behavior of earthquakes…
From insideHPC
Microway Deploys NVIDIA DGX-2 Supercomputer at Clemson University
Today Microway announced the company has shipped a NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer to Clemson University. "The NVIDIA DGX-2 delivers industry-leading 2 petaFLOPS of AI deep learning performance. The system harnesses the power of 16…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots in Cluttered Environments
Like in the Smart Home, or emergency interactions. Robotics have to be able to adapt.
Quicker Eye for Robotics to Help in Our Cluttered, Human Environments By University of Michigan News
University of Michigan (UM) researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Business Leaping into Space
A big transition. This K@W article give a good view of the motivations. Also the consequences and need for further regulation when opening up Space for business.
Why Big Business Is Making a Giant Leap into Space
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From BLOG@CACM
How Do You Calculate with the Sector?
The sector was developed in the second half of the 16th century, and was in widespread use until the end of the 19th century,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garmin DriveSmart 65
Been recently examining options for in-car assistant connection. Awaiting the Echo Auto in the car. Considering other elements of what data is being transmitted and leveraged. Here Garmin makes a move with Alexa. What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward the Intelligent Workplace
ake many experimental moves in this direction, starting with the issuing of iPads and Apps, but none were completely satisfactory. More like issuing tools and training rather than creating systems that would initiate and help…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China's Fast Move in Blockchain
Special edition of the MIT Tech Review Blockchain newsletter, which covers China, Ant Financial, Alibaba and new work in Smart Contracts ... Sign on to this newsletter at the link, well worth following.
Chain Chain Letter …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Mark D. Hill Receives The 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award!
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society just jointly announced that Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2019 Eckert…
From Schneier on Security
Lessons Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
Really interesting first-hand experience from Maciej Cegłowski....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Quantum Connection For Matrix Rank
A new paper with Chaowen Guan Chaowen Guan is a PhD student at Buffalo. After a busy end to the Spring 2019 term at UB, we are getting time to write about our paper, “Stabilizer Circuits, Quadratic Forms, and Computing Matrix…
From insideHPC
Appentra Releases Parallelware Trainer 1.2
Appentra is pleased to announce the release of Parallelware Trainer 1.2, further improving the provision of accessible HPC and parallel programming training using OpenMP and OpenACC. "Appentra has a clear goal: to make parallel…
From Computational Complexity
IMU's non-controversial changing the name of the Nevanlinna Prize
(I want to thank Alexander Soifer for supplying me with some of the documents I point to in this post. We should all thank him for getting the ball rolling on changing the name of the Nevanlinna Prize.)
The Nevanlinna Prize …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2020- Call for papers
Consider submitting your papers/posters for the Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2020 to be held from 5-6 March 2020 in San Francisco, United States! FICC 2020 aims to provide a forum for researchers…
From insideHPC
EPI delivers first design for high-performance processor
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has delivered its first architectural design to the European Commission and is welcoming new partners. "Energy efficient high-performance families of EPI processors will include most advanced…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining 3D Printing With Vision and AI
Clever, powerful idea. Have always thought 3D printing was too awkward to use in many applications. Can this solve the problem?
A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
by Zach Winn, MassachusettsTechxplore…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creepy Associations among Already Scanned Objects?
Course once we scan faces, the ultimate 'personal' thing, we can scan anything else. Like products people are wearing or carrying. And associate them with the person. And associate them with any other process context…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trying on Makeup Via Live with Amazon
We spent years and much effort looking at the technology options for 'Virtual Makeover'. Calling it 'Virtual Beauty'. Tested it our virtual spaces, and in home settings, never flew strongly. Always thought the selfie craze…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Duplex. Block or Receive with a Bot?
Good piece in the Verge about Google Duplex. And how businesses can opt out of incoming calls from it. Duplex lets you set up a kind of agent with a script to do tasks. An example to start with could be making a reservation…
From insideHPC
Advancing Fusion Science with CGYRO using GPU-based Leadership Systems
Jeff Candy and Igor Sfiligoi from General Atomics gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "Gyrokinetic simulations are one of the most useful tools for understanding fusion science. We'll explain how we designed and
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From insideHPC
Welcome to ISC High Performance 2019
In this special guest feature, Martin Meuer and Thomas Meuer set the stage for the ISC High Performance conference, which takes place June 16-20 in Frankfurt. "The opening keynote also reflects our devotion to raising the level…
From Schneier on Security
The Cost of Cybercrime
Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. In this paper,we report what has changed in the seven years since. The…
From insideHPC
Supermicro teams with WekaIO for Deep Learning Performance Density
Today WekaIO announced Supermicro, a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, is an authorized OEM partner. The Supermicro BigTwin Server featuring the WekaIO File System…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- How to make a computer out of junk DNA?
The following is a Great Innovative Idea from Josh Deutsch, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Deutsch was one of the participants at the Computing Community Consortium(CCC) workshop on Thermodynamic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Builds Ads from Customer Data
In FMIDailyLead:
Walmart works to build up its Ad platform in Adage
Walmart is hoping to sign on CPG brands like Kellogg's, Procter & Gamble and Unilever to its new ad platform, which is built around customer data. "If you want…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Algorithm for Videos
Analyzing video is a powerful idea. But it contains naturally much more data. Penn State provides some new ideas.
New Algorithm May Help People Store More Pictures, Share Videos Faster
in Penn State News
By Matt Swayne
Researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare AI Looks for Patterns
The easiest thing to do with AI (or other kinds of analytics) is to pattern match. Not the only thing, but if you have enough data to train it, you can find a likelihood that you have detected the same thing. You also have…